Mirror Drawings

I've used the insert mirror part feature to create a part. I a
drawing for each part, the original and the mirror. I already have a
drawing associated with the original part. Is there a way that I can
mirror the drawing also? I don't wish to redimension the drawing.

 

I think this one has been brought up a couple of times, and I believe the
answer "not really" We used to set up prints even back in the manual days
like that as "-1, as shown" and "-2, opposite". (or RH / LH) ...One of the
reasons for this was that if something changes, you have to make the change
in both places and do a change notice for two drawings vs. one, and hope you
don't miss anything (esp if it's not a model change, but a material or other
annotation that should apply to both...)

Here's some add'l info I just googled...

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=131239&page=1

Good luck...

IYM

 

-Thanks, I couldn't find any way to resolve this. I just
redimensioned the drawing. At least I only had to model it once.

 

If it is true mirror image, then there should be no reason to dimension
it. -1, -2 should be sufficient for any competent fabricator. Even if it
has some extra features, technically you should only dimension what is
different. Otherwise you are creating duplicate dimensions all over the
place. really bad practice.

Make a drawing, showing the part, refer to the part as left hand, mirror
images etc... see drawing -1 for details.

ca